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Larry, I'll look through my stuff and see how many of those types of chassis I have. I'll start working on one for a runner also. What about tires? What should we run for rears?  --------------------Bill

A follow up message I received from Larry:

The Manta Ray came with a Lotus 30 body also. The trouble with running the old bodies is that they brake so easy. If we could find some of the parma one that would be great. The nice thing about the Nascar bodies is there cheap... I paid $4.99 for the ones I bought off e-bay.. And that was all painted and decaled.. I see them all the time like this.
These cars are wheelie Machines if you remember and they didn't run to bad. To much power and you wheelie out. I think this would be a fun class and a real challage to get them to work half way..  I add a swinging piece of brass onto the swing arm from the front axle like I did on that AMT car you seen. It didn't seem to work on it, but it helped the Classic ASP that I built..
Well see if you can get some people interested in buying some cars.. I'll bet that most of these guys has at least one laying around. I know Terry has some vintage stuff and Brian & Jeff might too. If not there will be a way to find some. E-BAY

Larry

Good point! I'd hate to get banned before the starting flag even dropped!!!

Rico, I'll show you my water heater technique!!!! A little flick here, a little squeeze there, and wha-la....we got serious air!!!! ............but, evidently I missed the garage door approach!    -----------------------Bill

We had a great time with you guys up at Cape Horn on the 8th!!! Looking forward to more racing with you guys!!! Maybe we should have an annual FLEXI KILL!!!! What a HOOT!!!  -------------Bill

Thank you carlyse_09! It's great to have your interest! I like to post the projects I'm working on. The only real problem is I've been quite lazy lately and haven't gotten much done!!!  ---------------------Bill

Yes. The wing cars are unbelievable! I wonder how commercial tracks survive in the other areas of the country?

I'll take a stab here Rico. Years ago the standard of motors used for slot cars was a 36D.  They were BIG, like the size of the Radioshack motors NASTE uses. They were replaced by 26Ds which were slightly smaller and more powerful. They are no longer produced.  These were also even smaller motors close in size to the current 16D motors. The main difference between 16Ds and the super 16Ds is the supers have balanced armatures. The Falcon, Plafit, Cheetah series motors are even smaller than the 16Ds, but less serviceable. Each of the motor designations have a specific size and wind of wire on their armatures.

Here's some more info taken from:
History of Slot Car Racing....
The Short Story - by John Ford - johnford@slotmail.org
Scale Auto Racing News Magazine - http://www.scaleautoracing.com
Reference credits to: Rocky Russo, the late Jose Rodriguez, Phillippe de Lespinay, Dieter Bollinger.

"Revell and Russkit started improving the Mabuchi 16D, the literal ancestor to the motor in every slot car today; and they started importing the 36D. This was the same motor but much larger. The 16D motor was 16 millimeters high; the 36D was 24 millimeters high. I have no idea where the 36D part came from.The 36D was the weapon of choice on the commercial tracks for the next couple years. It was much cheaper, made similar power, and displaced the railroad motors on the commercial tracks. The smaller 16D was the motor of choice for the 1/24 racers building skinny Formula 1 racers of the period."

"In early 1969, Dynamic, long the standard in Formula III/Group 12 racing came out with a new car. The chassis was stamped out of brass and it was an ANGLE WINDER. This was the car that made "Group Racing" practical. It handled nearly as well as the scratchbuilt. It came with a 16D motor, good magnets, and #30 single wind armature very much like the one found today in the modern day ready to run slot car."

"Mabuchi came out with a new size motor, the 26D that was an attempt to compromise between the torque of the 36D and the speed of the 16D. But so many builders were working on 16D's, that the 26D proved to be a dead end."

"At the same time the manufacturers got together and agreed to limited class racing. The Classes? Group 12, Group 15, Group 20, Group 7 (open). For the first time, a racer could buy an off the shelf car, travel anywhere and be legal.
The classifications were set up like this. A group 12 ready to run car would cost no more than 12 dollars, a group 15 would cost no more than 15 dollars, a group 20 would sell for no more than 20 dollars, and the group 7 was named after the popular
Can-Am Group 7 class in 1 to 1 scale sports car racing. Just like its namesake, it was an "Open" class, meaning that as long as the size restraints were adhered to, there was no restrictions."

Racers, Bob has a "Pit Area" forum on the OSCAR website. I posted a message asking him if he had any updated info regarding chassis building classes. You can keep tabs here: http://oregonmodelracing.com/oscar_foru … 4&t=39  ------------------------Bill

Oh well Rico, I'm sure you'll have a good time there!..............and there's still more racin' to come! Randy's startin' up again on Tuesday.     ------------------Bill